Eddie Hernandez’s Buttermilk Fried Rooster with Green Chile–Horseradish Sauce

These cutlets savor the identical flavor profile as feeble Southern fried hen. The incompatibility is that they cook dinner in decrease than ten minutes. I added horseradish to the cream sauce, and naturally I needed to throw some chiles in there for any other layer of quiet heat. Predicament delight in provides tartness and sweetness. When Martha Stewart visited whereas she turned into in metropolis, this turned into the actual that day and she ordered it. She called over one in every of our servers and requested what turned into in the sauce that made it so correct. I factor in she turned into shocked when he told her.

Excerpted from Turnip Greens & Tortillas: A Mexican Chef Spices Up the Southern Kitchen, © 2018 by Eddie Hernandez and Susan Puckett. Images © 2018 by Angie Mosier. Reproduced by permission of Rux Martin Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. —Food52

Directions

1. Buttermilk Fried Rooster
2. Line a baking sheet with paper towels.
3. Build the hen and buttermilk in a broad bowl, quilt, and refrigerate for 2 hours. Build the seasoned flour in a shallow dish.
4. Heat 1 rush of oil in a broad, heavy skillet or Dutch oven over excessive heat to 350 levels.
5. Desire away the hen from the buttermilk and dredge in the flour on both aspect. Gently place in the oil and cook dinner in batches, turning, unless golden brown and crispy on the commence air and cooked thru, 5 to 10 minutes. Desire away with a slotted spoon to the paper towel– lined baking sheet. Enable the oil to come encourage to 350 levels between every batch.
6. Succor every cutlet with 1 /4 cup of the sauce and Sriracha, if desired.
7. EDDIE’S WAY: Succor with steamed or sautéed green beans or spinach and heat tortillas.

1. Green Chile–Horseradish Sauce
2. Melt 1 tablespoon of the butter in a itsy-bitsy saucepan over medium heat. Add the chiles, horseradish, and quandary delight in. Cook for 3 minutes and add the heavy cream. Lengthen the warmth to medium-excessive and let boil for 3 minutes, looking out at intently to make certain the mix doesn’t boil over. Enable the mix to chill a bit, then switch to a blender or meals processor and puree, being very cautious with hot liquids in the blender, as they’ll overflow . Pour the mix thru a shapely-mesh strainer encourage into the saucepan. Add the closing 8 tablespoons butter, season with salt, and cook dinner over medium heat, stirring on occasion, unless the sauce is decreased to about 2 cups. It wants to be somewhat thin. Succor heat unless ready to use.